Oh, eye see!

It's been a while. Again. And what is my stupid flimsy excuse this time? Howzabout a cataract. Yup - the lens in my one good seeing eye got all cloudy and stuff. It didn't happen suddenly, but the fix sure was.

You go into a hospital room, they numb and dilate your eye, clamp the eye lids open (they do keep the eye nice and hydrated), then put in two small holes on the outside part of the iris. One to remove the old lens, the other to put in the new one. It was hard to see a difference right away because of the dilation - but the next day was amazing. Contrast was back, and colors were vibrant again. Especially blue! The sky! A cataract will cause a yellowish cloudy haze in the lens. Yellow is the antithesis of blue so blue is gradually absorbed. When a clear lens was put in, blue POPPED! Even white cars were light blue (to me)!

So what does this have to do with my blog? I've gradually been going out less and less taking pictures of stuff. I still attended Reno for the Air Races and tryouts, I still went to Photoshop World, I still did a lot of the big stuff, but the small stuff simply stopped. I didn't really have an interest. Trying to see airplanes travelling at 500mph low to the ground so I can grab a picture of them, all the time not being able to make them out due to contrast and focus issues, was very frustrating. I've come to realize that it's the small stuff that makes this business/hobby such a blast.

The only problem I have now is that the eye has a pretty good sized astigmatism so I still wear my glasses from before the surgery, if anything so that I can read close up. I get a new prescription in a few days so we'll see how focus will be refined. Looking forward to it...